Contemporary Performance Lighting

<p>This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers researchers and artists. Showcasing recent examples of work - with case studies of lighting practices in Britain Europe the US and China - --combined with theoretical and analytical approaches to practice this will enrich your understanding of the role and potential of light in performance and related creative practices. <p/>This volume explores three core themes and provides a framework for thinking through the role of light in performance: <br>1. Experience - considers both the audience's experience of light and the ways in which light influences the experience of performers<br>2. Creativity - examines both the creative performative capacities of light in performance as well as the creative practices of lighting designers<br>3. Meaning - offers an expanded view of performance aesthetics by examining the capacity of light to influence and generate meaning within performance. <p/>The case studies are drawn from a wide-array of lighting practice including: Jennifer Tipton on the role of light as a structural language in performance; Jesper Kongshaug on the lighting of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens; Lucy Carter on her work in installation and dance; Psyche Chui on the productive fusion of Western lighting techniques with contemporary Chinese opera; Katharine Williams on the role of light in feminist political theatre made by RashDash; and Paule Constable on storytelling with light in a range of productions including <i>War Horse</i> <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time</i> and <i>Angels in America</i>.</p>